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I was wondering what ya'll like to use when chasing channel cats? Youtube is plumb full of dough bait, cut bait and other contraptions folks use to catch whisker fish. But most are far from Utah. I have my best luck using good old night crawlers and shrimp. Just thought i'd see what other people like. Thanks in advance.[  ] I created to catfish predators last summer when i got my daughter and son out after cats. They are chomping at the bit to hit em' again.
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Baits I Use: shrimp, hot dogs, chicken livers, worms, and carp. I have doe really good with all of these baits. I usually have all of them with me when fishing for catfish.
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Carp meat, white bass meat, whole wb 4 - 6 inches long, minnows, and ripe shrimp. Crawlers are good but they tend to invite mudders and carp. I stay away from prepared stink baits. Anything that is native to the water you are fishing seems to work best. Channel cats are not known to be selective or picky about what they eat.
I caught some big channels that were hanging out a few feet below a really dead cow that was hung up in a creek that feeds into Utah Lake. I think they were feeding on that cow as it melted down. Yuck!
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[quote Boatloadakids]Carp meat, white bass meat, whole wb 4 - 6 inches long, minnows, and ripe shrimp. Crawlers are good but they tend to invite mudders and carp. I stay away from prepared stink baits. Anything that is native to the water you are fishing seems to work best. Channel cats are not known to be selective or picky about what they eat.
I caught some big channels that were hanging out a few feet below a really dead cow that was hung up in a creek that feeds into Utah Lake. I think they were feeding on that cow as it melted down. Yuck!
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Waddie Mitchell has a great poem (cowboy poetry) about being really thirsty while looking for cattle a' horseback. He finds a creek and bails off and drinks til he about pops. Then when he rides upstream he finds a dead cow slipping hair and an oily film on the water and maggots doing the backstroke. The moral of his poem is "After drinking, never, ever remount and ride UPSTREAM![cool][cool][cool]
Thanks for the insight!
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I've caught most of mine using a plain old crawler. But carp meat or shrimp is a good alternative.
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Whole baby carp from about 3-6in long with a few holes poked in them and white bass
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My favorite bait is a secret. But other baits I really like are worms, white bass, carp, prepared baits, and I've even had luck on mice and rats. Channels arnt very picky just only a few days ago I went fishing for white bass and I usually use chicken breast, but it seems to catch catfish. A lot times they prefer different baits on differen days. So just experiment. Good luck.
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I am supprised no one has mentioned anchovies. I have had great luck with anchovies over the years, especially at lake Powell.
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get yourself some spam and egg sack materials and magic thread and make spam balls! throw that on a big circle hook and tip the end with some shrimp if ya want. puts out a ton of scent and once they mouth it, they don't let go!
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[quote utahgolf]get yourself some spam and egg sack materials and magic thread and make spam balls! throw that on a big circle hook and tip the end with some shrimp if ya want. puts out a ton of scent and once they mouth it, they don't let go![/quote]
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[left] Suckers. I mean the fish, cut bait like. I've had little luck of carp meat or minnows really, but I'll keep trying. Fresh and bloody - seen a WHOPPER a guy caught on carp guts. Maybe the like the innards when they are outwards.
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Plenty of crawlers have worked for me. Nabbed a few on chicken liver - the magic thread pays off there. Got some stretchy gauze bandage material that makes good porous bags.
White bass can only be used on certain waters (you lucky southerners!) - even Perch minnows/meat have their limitations.
Seen a snappy rig to threading a hot dog lengthwise onto a treble. I do a lot of shrimping, though I hate to spend more on my bait that my dinner. But I do avoid the mudders more that way. Though I've had a carp take a shrimp, or minnow. Fatheads are smaller, but I've stacked a wad onto a hook.
Stinkbait only seems to make my fingers stinky.
Some of it depends on what rigging you use also as to what's going to work best. I like getting a good lip hook from a circle or octopus under a bobber, and find a slip-sinker that lets them run with it, often get's swallowed deep.
Not that everyone's divulging their secrets, maybe you and your kiddles ought to consider entering the [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=869139;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;page=unread#unread"]Cat Contest[/url]. We know them Southern Catters need all the help they can get.[/left]
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I've found that a large whole night crawler is hard to beat. Minnows come in a close second, followed by shrimp and white bass cut bait.
All the other stuff will catch them, but I've found the above works best in my experience.
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In order of preference for me...
1- baby 3-5" carp stabbed a couple times with a fillet knife.
2- fresh cut carp (bloodied up a bit) in 2" chunks.
3- deer or elk liver from previous years hunt(stays on the hook better than chicken liver).
4- good ole night crawlers.
5- shrimp(I catch walleyes on this also, believe it or not).
6- velveeta cheese w/ secret additive.
If I only have one of any of these on any given trip I feel confident in getting some fish. For me its more about the spot and my gut instinct as to what they want. If I'm getting into too many mud cats and carp, I usually upsize my bait and wait them out.
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At UL, chunks of Carp, night crawlers have been my best bait. At WB night crawlers, the whole fat worm, wrapped and poked repeatedly over a #1 Mustad bait hook sittin on the bottom, and lately at WB, I've been doing quite well dragging a chartreuse and silver 3" Rat-l-trap along the edges just fast enough to make the lure hit bottom, bounce up, then hit again. Sure didn't do that on purpose for Cats, just one of the crazy things you just stumble on sometimes.
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Thanks for all of the replys. Ya'll are giving me a few more options to think about and try. Best of luck to ya as spring approaches and the fishing heats up. If I can return the favor I am willing. Thanks again!
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Nightcrawlers, minnows and mice. In order of usage and reverse order of size fish caught. Largest fish last year was on a big ol mouse I caught in the chicken coop. Ugly male fish but it was my longest of the year. I used to use all the stinky stuff too but there aren't near as many mudcats as there used to be so I can use the easy stuff now and not spend the whole time taking off mudcats. Plus I troll mostly now to catch them and that got rid of the whole mudder problem. Later J
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You TARGET whitebass with chicken breast? Well, I just learnt something.
Chunks of bloody carp in UL and Willard, wb in UL. Chub steaks work great, too.
Made a dough bait once from 1 part dried anchovies from the Chinese market blended to dust in the blender and 1 part bread flour. I liked it, because I didn't seem to miss many bites, which sometimes you will with big chunks of carp.
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Yeah they seem to really like it. It works better than any other bait I've tried, exepct other white bass. But I have a lot of luck when I use one with chicken and/or chunks of white bass then another I will throw out some jigs. I've had a lot of luck doing it this way.
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Just raw little bits.? Cool, man.
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Yep just raw chicken breast.
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